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February 2025

“Nature held him with an upright dignity”
John Adams to William Tudor, Quincy, April 15, 1818
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Brad Skow
Justifying the Family, 1
In Family Values, Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift ask whether children need parents.
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Brad Skow
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On Georgia O'Keeffe
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The Horrid Massacre / Late Unhappy Disturbance
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Brad Skow
Take-aways from *Bias: A Philosophical Study*
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is too hard on Mike Teavee
You probably remember the story: five children win a lifetime supply of chocolate, and a tour of Wonka's factory.
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Brad Skow
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January 2025

“If the Devil were himself their scribe”
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Brad Skow
The Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor’s stories are, by her own account, “preoccupied with the grotesque.” The reason, some argue, is that the grotesque is fascinating to…
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“The time has come to show our strengthened hand”
The Earl of Hillsborough (Secretary of State for the Colonies) to Governor Bernard, Whitehall (London), July 30th, 1768
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Before Washington
We’ve forgot, but ”for many years it was possible to assert that Samuel Adams ranked with, if not above, George Washington," as a hero of the American…
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